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| thatpurplestuff:
Also, just wanted to thank arzoo for being so awesome. My machine uses LEDBlinky and I reached out recently regarding some animation issues I had (I was hoping to be able to call separate animations for the rings/ramp/ball return and he went out of his way to add the functionality even though I'm a very edge-case scenario). He's great and his software is fantastic! |
| eds1275:
--- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on March 03, 2024, 01:01:02 am ---but the overlapping look has always bugged me a bit and I always felt like I was missing something obvious in making the rings. --- End quote --- If you are using 3 layers, which looks awesome I might add... why not stagger the seams, and use glue to avoid needing any hardware? |
| thatpurplestuff:
--- Quote from: eds1275 on March 14, 2024, 12:07:16 pm --- --- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on March 03, 2024, 01:01:02 am ---but the overlapping look has always bugged me a bit and I always felt like I was missing something obvious in making the rings. --- End quote --- If you are using 3 layers, which looks awesome I might add... why not stagger the seams, and use glue to avoid needing any hardware? --- End quote --- Hey eds great to see you on here! Last I read you had just beat cancer for the second time, I know you've had a lot of health setbacks but I hope you are doing well! I actually tried staggering them a bit on a couple test rings, and the rubber was substantially more rigid than the vinyl so wherever the rubber seam was would create a little bump on the outer vinyl. You could probably fix this by using something besides rubber in the middle (maybe even just the same white vinyl tripled up inside) but I haven't explored that option yet. One thing that was important to me, at least until I try these out on the actual machine and see their durability, is that I'm able to take them apart easily so that I can replace the LEDs if necessary. I've got no idea if these will be rock solid or a complete disaster haha. I'm finished with both 100 rings and almost finished with the 50 and 40 rings, so I'm making slow and steady progress! Once they are all done and I've mounted them (got some interesting ideas I want to try that I hope will hide the brackets nicely) I'll post updates of the rings all lit up and in action! |
| eds1275:
--- Quote from: thatpurplestuff on March 15, 2024, 11:29:43 am ---Hey eds great to see you on here! Last I read you had just beat cancer for the second time, I know you've had a lot of health setbacks but I hope you are doing well! --- End quote --- Hey thanks! My health is going down again after contracting the Long Covid (whether you believe it or not, I'm proof) It seems to be just crippling exhaustion for me, cognitively based... like I can still hike a mountain but if I think too hard I'm down for a day. Really frustrating. Also my doctors have great promises but are slow to get the ball rolling (just a skeeball joke for ya.) I have been working on some new projects, although due to real estate, not arcade related! J7ust grabbed a dinky bandsaw this morning to help me out making some ukuleles. |
| rustymoose:
--- Quote from: netlohcs on October 27, 2020, 11:28:30 pm ---Didn't realize I could attach pictures to my post directly. Heres a few. --- End quote --- @netlohcs that looks amazing! Love the clean / modern look. Did you cut each individual piece of polycarbonate or is there in an existing product in that shape? What product did you use for the rubber top? My son and I are using Python and Tkinter for ours as well. Pretty easy to get into and chatgpt making learning faster too. |
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